However (local) caching is used in those cases as well, so it's only a pain the first time you visit a website. The router to where I work in my home setup is not shabby, but it's still took some 10 minutes to download GCC. For a while I thought something had stalled. 86 MB to 36 MB is a huge reduction and just makes things better with bad or laggy internet connections. Even worse is when the connection drops and you'd have to restart the download over again.
Best, Travis On Friday, October 31, 2014 6:44:07 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: > > Oh come on, cry me a river. The average top-1000 web page is well over a > megabyte nowadays. A one-time download of 50mb is a minor convenience at > best. We are talking about the equivalent of maybe 30 page visits. > > > > On Friday, October 31, 2014 11:48:47 AM UTC, Simon King wrote: >> >> Hi Volker, >> >> On 2014-10-31, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > ------=_Part_1546_392576408.1414752441684 >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> > >> > IMHO we should only modify upstream tarballs if we have to (e.g. strip >> out >> > non-free parts). The upstream tarballs are cached, so its just a >> one-time >> > download anyways. >> >> There are people who have a very bad band-with. In my case, it's fine >> when I am at university. But other than that, I only have a mobile >> internet stick, for which 50MB more or less really matters. >> >> Best regards, >> Simon >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
